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A CYBERWISE COMPANION GUIDE

PREZI

copy CyberWise 2012

A CYBERWISE COMPANION GUIDE

Prezi

How To Use This GuideThis guide accompanies the CyberWise Guide to Prezi video (which hopefully you just watched) If you are reading this guide online then simply click the links within to access the material they reference You can also print this guide in order to have a hard copy on hand Either way we hope you find the information within useful Enjoy

A CYBERWISE COMPANION GUIDE

Prezi

How To Use This GuideThis guide accompanies the CyberWise Guide to Prezi video (which hopefully you just watched) If you are reading this guide online then simply click the links within to access the material they reference You can also print this guide in order to have a hard copy on hand Either way we hope you find the information within useful Enjoy

If yoursquove watched the CyberWise Guide to Prezi video then you already know that Prezi is an intuitive non-linear pres-entation toolgraphic organizer Prezi helps educators and others expand beyond text-based linear presentation meth-ods to engage viewers who learn best in other ways

Prezi is also free and easy to use If you arenrsquot convinced then take a minute to watch the excellent introductory videos offered by Prezihellip

httpprezicomlearn

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What is Prezi

Getting Started with Prezi

1 Getting started with Prezi is easy Just go to to httpprezicom

2 Click on ldquoSign Up Nowrdquo and you will arrive at this page

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3 If you are an educator student or are opening an account for a student then scroll down and click on ldquoStudentTeacher Li-censesrdquo Prezi provides free up-graded licenses to students and teachers with a valid edu email address

4 This will take you to the page below

5 Choose between the free ldquoEdu Enjoyrdquo Package or upgrade to ldquoEdu Prordquo for $59year

6 Either way make sure you log into Prezi U and become a member of Prezirsquos educational community to learn and discuss best practices using Prezi in education Here you can browse submit and download edu-cational Prezis and more

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httpeduprezicom

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Learning to Use Prezi

Once you have opened an account itrsquos time to learn how to use Prezi In addition to the excellent tutorials available on Prezirsquos website (httpprezicom) here are some other resources we like

The Unofficial Prezi Quick Guide

Billy Meinke a graduate student at the Depart-ment of Educational Tech-nology at the University of Hawaii created this free iBook to Prezi Its an easy guide and refer-ence that shows how to make Prezis that engage audiences

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Prezi for Dummies

This handy cheat sheet teaches the basics of using Prezi

httpwwwdummiescomhow-tocontentprezi-for-dummies-cheat-sheethtml

10 Tips to Help Master Prezi

Once yoursquove mastered the basics the 10 tips in this guide are sure to help you become a better Prezi author and presenter

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Did we say this already Prezi is great for learning Besides being easy to learn and use you can count on Prezi to

Create engaging presentations

Enable digital storytelling

Encourage conceptmind mapping

Explain concepts simply

Create storyboards

But donrsquot just take our word for it Check out these resources for ideas on how to integrate Prezi into the classroom

17 Interesting Ways to Use Prezi in the Classroom

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Here are two terrific examples of student-created Prezirsquos used in the classroom

Lincolnrsquos Legacy (created by an 8th grade Social Studies class)

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Romeo and Juliet Mind Map

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Educational Uses for Prezi

Prezi Meeting

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Prezi as a Collaborative Toolfor Work and Play

Prezi also allows users to work together in real time on the same pres-entation This is great for collaborative learning andor for creating group projects Up to 10 people can work together at one time Find detailed information regarding this feature at the link below

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Playing to Learn Math

Web 20 in the Classroom

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httpprezicomobqzirjhtf-qweb-20-in-the-classroom

Here are a couple of great examples of Prezi being used as a profes-sional development tool

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Suggested Resources TM

Herersquos the last word from the Maverick Professor

httpprezicomwwmfvms6dno-the-maverick-presenter-prezihelpcom

Donrsquot forget to visit the Prezi Learning Center on our website to keep up to speed with Prezi We constantly scour the web for the latest develop-ments and ldquobagrdquo them for you to read

httpwwwcyberwiseorgPrezi-Hubhtml

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CyberWise Guide to Prezi Video Transcript

So what is Prezi

Itrsquos an intuitive presentation and storytelling tool

When we hear the words presentation tool we immediately think of PowerPoint But before there was PowerPoint people used overhead projectors and slides to tell their stories

Then Microsoft came along and developed slideware called Power-Point

And even though PowerPoint wasnrsquot designed for education Teachers and students use it Despite its rigid single path structure breaks up narratives into minimal fragments or slides that make it difficult to un-derstand context Turning everything into a bullet point Or a simplis-tic graph (Tufte 2007)

Seems like this might not be the best presentation tool for school Be-cause the thing ishellip Kids donrsquot really think linearly They think more like this

So instead of using software based on yesterdayrsquos technology Why not use a tool that matches their amazing brains

hellipand that can stand up to all that other media that competes for their attention every day So herersquos an alternativehellip

Prezi is a presentation tool that ditches slides in favor of a story-board format

Plus itrsquos free and easy to use (Yes I said free)

The theory behind Prezi is that since our ideas are not linear but rather bundles of interconnected concepts they are better captured as a whole with many parts

So with Prezi you can display your ideas on a single canvas starting with a big idea and filling in with related topics Then you can size and organize your con-tent on the canvas making con-nections more visually explicit than they might be in a standard slideshow presentation

The Prezi canvas also allows you to display visual imagery to help tell your story Because we live in a visually rich multi-media cul-ture photos images illustrations and video are integral elements of a Prezi in contrast to the often text-heavy outline-based methodol-ogy of most presentation software

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References

Prezi httpprezicom

Tufte E (2007) Beautiful Evidence ldquoThe Cognitive Style of PowerPoint Pitching Out Corrupts Withinrdquo Cheshire CT Graphics Press LLC

Music Credits

ldquoMerry Gordquo

ldquoCircus Tentrdquo

By Kevin MacLeod Incompetech httpincompetechcom

Photos

Best of all because Prezi tosses out slides in favor of a single canvas creators are encouraged to think in terms of groupings and hierarchies

So your presentation becomes a visual [concept] map allowing you to move through the content in a way that best tells your story And be-cause of the relational nature of the elements in the Prezi grouped by category and assigned larger (or smaller) sizes as necessary for the logic of the content presentations appear to audiences as more comprehensi-ble and visually interesting

Prezi lets you see the big picture and then zoom in to discover the de-tails Even the fine print Or you can take a step back to discover the big picture

Because sometimes you just really need to turn Learning upside down to see it in a new light And to remind ourselves that learners acquire knowledge in two ways linguistically by reading or hearing lectures and non-linguistically through visual imagery like this

Fortunately technology like Prezi is helping us to expand beyond linear text-based learning and to engage students who learn best in other ways

So what are you waiting for

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References

Prezi httpprezicom

Tufte E (2007) Beautiful Evidence ldquoThe Cognitive Style of PowerPoint Pitching Out Corrupts Withinrdquo Cheshire CT Graphics Press LLC

Music Credits

ldquoMerry Gordquo

ldquoCircus Tentrdquo

By Kevin MacLeod Incompetech httpincompetechcom

Photos

Best of all because Prezi tosses out slides in favor of a single canvas creators are encouraged to think in terms of groupings and hierarchies

So your presentation becomes a visual [concept] map allowing you to move through the content in a way that best tells your story And be-cause of the relational nature of the elements in the Prezi grouped by category and assigned larger (or smaller) sizes as necessary for the logic of the content presentations appear to audiences as more comprehensi-ble and visually interesting

Prezi lets you see the big picture and then zoom in to discover the de-tails Even the fine print Or you can take a step back to discover the big picture

Because sometimes you just really need to turn Learning upside down to see it in a new light And to remind ourselves that learners acquire knowledge in two ways linguistically by reading or hearing lectures and non-linguistically through visual imagery like this

Fortunately technology like Prezi is helping us to expand beyond linear text-based learning and to engage students who learn best in other ways

So what are you waiting for

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